My Bad Experience while Voting on the First Automated Election  

Well, I arrived at the polling precinct at 8:10 and need to follow a long line. I was able to cast my vote at 10:30. There is only one machine to accept the votes and the lines are becoming longer as more people come and vote. Some of those who queued the line lose patience and went away without casting their votes. Some of the votes were rejected by the machine due to some error. I think that the automated election process is not perfect but it's a good start to something better in the coming elections.

wow, that was hard danzylop

well, i never knew that the school that we used to vote closed down so we had to fall in line in one of the barangays here. my first time to fall the line while voting in an automated election, luckily we were that early because there's so many people and two machines in a very small place.my glad you got the chance to vote. it's all over now.

are you going to hate the politics or the democracy like i do

i guess i could say that still, you are lucky to have voted. in some places, there were really some people who were not able to vote. some have their names not listed in the list of voters. some people, because of the long lines, they choose not to vote instead.

your experience is as bad as me and my wife had experienced. the long line of people waiting for their priority numbers. people were complaining about the slow movement inside the polling precincts. tiring, hunger, thirst, dust, smell of different people, headache, etc. they were all present in that election.

but because we only have one vote, we kept our patience and waited for 7 hours, for just a 10 minute shading the candidates we have chosen.

really bad for you dude coz you got sick just because of you want to vote. well almost everyone experience the long long line up of voters including me, i went to the school where i will vote at 11:00 am and finished casting my vote at 2:00 pm already. its my first time voting and actually i thought that it would only take me 15 minutes to vote but i guess, you just cant expect everything to run smoothly especially if its the first time.

Im sorry to hear that and yes, this election is one of the worst painstaking elections ever. The good thing though is that, this has been one of well fast and cleaner Philippine elections happened. I hope that our COMELEC would be able to come up with a better system in the next elections.

Hi there Danzylop!
Sorry to hear your bad experienced this new election. It is really true
because all precincts have different clustered one and the voters are
more approximately one thousand so that's the thing happened. I am one
of the B.E.I we also have hard time to do the job being the one who
man the voting in the precincts. This is to be revised next time as the
voters have having hard to time to wait for their priority number to cast
their votes. We have also many things to sign and do before the voters
go out from the precincts.Imagine the PCOS machine approved for how many
minutes sometimes it will also jam and do not accept more ballots if that
happens. We will need to call the attention first to the I.T personnel to
check the situation and that's the time it goes back also. Machine also
work slow as it is used long time imagine from 6am until late at midnight.
So COMELEC officials will make some changes on the process in voting as the
time alloted not suited w/ the number of voters. In the next precinct their
voters line until 9pm plus and they are allowed to vote as they are already in the line. So it must be decreased might be to five hundred voters.
Long time before the automation voters in the precincts is only 200 plus and now
they make into one the seven precincts so that's the scenario happen.

its is sad that you had a bad experience while voting on the first automated elections. I guess this is because many things are done so fast in order to make this election automated.

I was lucky though to be able to finish mine in just 20 mins.

I'm sorry it was such an ordeal. I'm sure next year things will have improved. The first time around is always a trial and error event. The next time elections roll around, surely the people in charge will have worked out the kinks everyone experienced this time. I'm glad you got to vote though. I always anticipated voting. I felt good exercising such an important right.

hahaha historical date and event! May 10, 2010, first automated election. Me and my family decided to go to the voting place early at 7:35am, but we were shocked, there were a lot people who were there earlier than us falling in a very long line and in a zigzag line, actually i have photos at my facebook. I belong to cluster 1a,1b,2a,3a and 4a. five precinct in 1 cluster imagine? the support staff was my cousin i thought it would be easier for me to get priority number but sadly not, his very strict. I got disappointed that time,til I decided to wait i got number 304, and then i wait, I WAITED SO LONG! I VOTED AT EXACTLY 5:43PM! after that we helped other voters to find their names at the master lists. there were a lot of commotions and panics because there were precinct that decided to close but there were still voters at the voting place. we called up the regional comelec officers for help. thanks God she grant our request to still continue the voting til the all the voters who were at the polling place could vote. our precinct ends at exactly 11:00pm.